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Quote by Jacques Barzun
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - J

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun

Other quotes by Jacques Barzun

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. – Jacques Barzun

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Tennis
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Jacques Barzun
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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Intelligence
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Jacques Barzun
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. – Ellen Key

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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. – Henry Louis Gates

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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. – George Bernard Shaw

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